Tomorrow is the NAMI Walk exhibition for my biology class. We have to get there at 6:30 in the morning. My group is planning to set up our booth under a canopy so we can hang out in the shade while presenting to people who walk by our booth. On our booth we will have our T-Shirts laid out on the table for people to see. I designed a couple papers for our booth as well that have some contact info for if people are ever having major issues with their depression and need professional support. Then along with those things we will be engaging our visitors in an interactive activity that will serve as a metaphor for teen depression. A lot of times people will describe their depression as a weight on their shoulders or a weight pulling them down like an anchor. In our activity we will have a heavy backpack and put it on our guests then have them do the simple task of sitting down and standing up just enough so they get tired because some people with severe depression are so exhausted that they don’t want to get up but, we only want to give our participants a small taste of what it’s really like so we won’t go that far. While the participants are doing this we will be telling them fact and symptoms of depression. After they complete this activity we will tell them how to get help and some of the best ways of doing so.
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When I was younger I thought I knew exactly what I wanted to do for a career. I thought that I wanted to be a teacher but so many things have gone through my mind to cause me to change my mind to something else. During ninth grade I changed my mind to something to do with physics. Most of my current career ideas revolve around it in some way but now I am getting scared that I’m not good enough at math to major in physics. After thinking that I should probably major in something else, many different things have caught my attention but nothing has really stuck in my head. The other day I was talking to my Dad and when the topic of college was brought up (as it usually is in our conversations) I told him about how I didn’t feel confident enough with my math skills to pick a major like physics. He told me that I shouldn’t worry about my math skills as long as I pick something I am passionate about that I will learn the skills as I go. Then when he saw that I wasn’t really reassured with what he was saying he made a comparison “When a baseball player is being recruited for MLB he won’t just give up on the sport he is passionate about it just because it will be har. He will practice harder in order to prepare.” Then I realized my Dad was right, I really enjoy physics and why should I not pursue it in college just because I’m scared I am not good enough now when I know that I can work at math and make sure I’m prepared for what I want to do. This week we went through a critique session with people outside of our school. We went through two rounds of critique. The first round we didn’t have anyone to critique our work since not all the visitors showed up, so during that round we just discussed what we were going to say and how to present it in a way that would encourage helpful critique on our products. The next round of critique we had a graphic designer named David Varela critique our work. Since he was a graphic designer we wanted him to focus his critique on our t-shirt design because my group mates and I knew that it needed work. The critique we got from him was very helpful and I think it gave us a little push in the right direction. He showed us things that we could add to our t-shirt design to give it more meaning like adding detail to the band-aids and positioning them in meaningful places on our brain like where it is related or linked to depression. Then he told us that we should manipulate the design of a band-aid to signify things that could help with depression and put them on the corresponding parts of the brain. Although the changes he said we should make were small I know they will make a big difference and help us get our message across in a better way than we tried before. After we finished critique we talked with him for a little while afterward and he told us about a form of critique that he is familiar with and how it really helps include others ideas into one. The first person draws out their sketch and then passes it to the next person and they add something to it or they change it a little so that it looks better and you continue passing it around. I After my Stanford tour I had to rush over to SFSU to make it to my next tour on time. When I first got on campus I didn’t even realize it was a campus, it seemed so different from other universities that I’ve seen in the past. Once I walked into a more central part of campus is when I really saw it as a university and not just a bunch of buildings. While taking the tour I noticed that the environment there on the campus was very positive. Many of the students seemed to be having fun and spending time enjoying themselves. There were groups of students on the lawn blasting their music through speakers and others were playing games with each other. I haven’t really seen much of that unless there was an event going on at the time but this time there wasn’t. When I was talking to my tour guide she told me that the faculty and professors at SFSU try their best to accommodate to student needs. Some ways that they do this is by bringing dogs into the main lawn on campus for the students to come and hang out with the dogs during finals. Another thing that they had changed to accommodate students is the library. To maximize study space they put all the books in a sort of room and you go to a computer that is there and type in the book you need then a robot goes to grab it for you and bring it to you. With all the extra space they put in private and group study cubicles and spaces. In the student health center on campus they offer a lot of different services for your health that they reduce prices for to accommodate to the students. Students can call in for emergencies or for of the phone consultations. After visiting Mills College I had a certain expectation for how my tour at Stanford would be. Let me just tell you I wasn’t expecting the tour to be what it was. The tour group was huge compared to the tour I got the day before with 4 people other than me in my tour group. That made it a little tricky to ask my questions since everyone else had questions of their own but I managed. My tour guide transferred to Stanford this year (his junior year) so when I asked him about the work load he gets in his classes he admitted that at times it can feel overwhelming but he is still trying to adjust from his former college. As a transfer student he is still getting to know his professors and the faculty there and form connections and relationships with his professors but he did say that the teachers want to create connections with their students and be able to provide the help that is needed both in and out of schooling. With the 1 to 23 student teacher ratio it is fairly easier to do so. At Stanford they have a health center for students called Vaden Health Center. After paying a health fee students can access various health services including a 45-50 minute therapy session. At Vaden their goal is to help students thrive with the environment they are put in. They try to make the health services as accessible to the students as they can so that the students can perform at their best. |
AuthorMy name is Sofianna Sanchez and I'm a junior at High Tech High Chula Vista. I'm wrote these blog posts weekly to help me prepare for writing them daily during my month long internship. Archives
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